The new President of the United States, Stephen Blades, gets the traditional "welcome to the job" letter from the outgoing POTUS, and while he expects the usual words of encouragement and advice that one president gives to another, he gets something entirely different: aliens are out there in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter …
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This American Life
A couple of weeks ago, I read a piece in the Washington Post where the writer lamented how podcasts have taken over our ears and that blah blah blah problems for people without actual problems. Seriously. It's one of those cranky white male laments of how "podcasts are taking over something something something" and how …
Shrill
For episode 10 of Required Reading, Stella and I covered biography, autobiography, and memoir as a genre. Had I read Lindy West's Shrill back then, I would have heartily recommended it on that episode. If you're not familiar with Lindy West, she is a writer who was a longtime columnist for Jezebel and currently contributes …
Secret Origins #15, 18
My steady look at Secret Origins continues--though I have to admit here that I'm not picking one up the minute I put another one down and take breaks or read something else between them--and here we have newer, updated origins for characters that I, at best, was only ever marginally interested in: The Spectre, Deadman, …
Thor by Walt Simonson vols 1 and 2
About a year ago, Amazon was having one of those massive Kindle graphic novel sales that was all Marvel books (it may have been because Infinity War was coming out) and I think I bought what had to be a couple of hundred dollars' worth of digital trade paperbacks for $.99-$2.99. Among them were the …
What’s On My iPod?
I've been meaning to review podcasts here since it's one of my four categories, but unlike, say, books or back issues that I'm reading or movies I'm watching, these aren't pieces of physical media and a number of them are ongoing in the same way a television show would be, but a number of podcasts …
Secret Origins #17
In this issue, Gerry Conway, Carmine Infantino, and Tony DeZuniga take on an updated origin for Adam Strange while Roy Thomas, E. Nelson Bridwell, Howard Simpson, and Bob Lewis give us the new origin of Dr. Occult. It's the first pairing that I was a little wary of, considering that up to this point, Thomas …
Breaking Rules on and Reaping the Benefits of FCBD 2019
Free Comic Book Day was last Saturday. I've gone just about every year for the past six or seven years, and I have the same M.O. every year. I go in completely blind to what is available (i.e., I don't look at the solicits in Previews) and plan on dropping at least a little money …
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Secret Origins #16
Picking up random issues of Secret Origins between winding my way through entire runs of comics seems to have been a good idea, as long as this series remains as good as it has when it comes to the one-and-done type of story. In this one, there's Hourman by Roy Thomas and Michael Bair along …
The Worst Team Money Could Buy
I am a long-suffering New York Mets fan who is part of a specific generation where the "suffering" part of that compound adjective took a while to come along. I began following the team in the 1985 season and was nine years old when they won their second (and to date last) World Series in …
The Uncollecting 